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Why did Hobbes believe that fear was the basis of political obligation?
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... Why did Hobbes believe that fear was the basis of political obligation? In Hobbes' conception of the world, the natural state of mankind is that of "the miserable condition of war"1. The basic passions within us - Pride, Avarice, Greed - doom mankind to lead "nasty, brutish, and short"2 lives, and to live in dismal insecurity. The only way to escape this state of nature is to bind men together "by feare of punishment to the performance of their covenants and observation of those Lawes of Nature"3. Only by transferring certain freedoms, and physically enforcing the new collective agreement amongst men, can man be lifted out of this inexpedient state of nature. The only way to enforce this, he argued, was through fear. In order to understand why this fear was the basis of political obligation in Hobbes' conceptual framework, one requires a knowledge of what Hobbes thought it necessary
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